This effected 12 polling places in Bridgeport and will delay results as those ballots cannot be counted until after 10 p.m. also - the photocopies ballots will need to be counted by hand.

Elaine Ficara, a spokesperson for Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch, said turnout was much higher than anticipated, that the ballot problem was a statewide issue and that no one in Bridgeport had been turned away from a polling place.

The lines were so long at one point that pizzas were being handed out to voters. By 7 p.m., more ballots had arrived and lines were moving again, city officials said.

Some stations asked voters who left polls without voting to return, according to the Connecticut Post.

Bysiewicz predicted voter turnout statewide could be around 60 percent, and possible 65 percent, by the time the polls close.